Social:Xukuruan languages
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Short description: Proposed language family of Brazil
| Xukuruan | |
|---|---|
| Shukuru | |
| Geographic distribution | Brazil |
| Linguistic classification | One of the world's primary language families |
| Subdivisions |
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| Glottolog | xuku1239 (Xukurú)[1] |

The Xukuruan languages are a language family proposed by Loukotka (1968) that links two languages of eastern Brazil.[2][3] The languages are:
- Xukurú
- Paratió
Loukotka (1968) also lists the unattested Garañun (Garanhun), an extinct, undocumented language once spoken in the Serra dos Garanhuns.[2]
Vocabulary
Loukotka (1968) lists the following basic vocabulary items for Shukurú and Paratió.[2]
gloss Shukurú Paratió ear bandulák bolúdo tooth chilodé vovó man sheñupre sheñup sun kiá kiá moon klariːmon limolago earth krashishi tobacco mãzyé mazyaː
References
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds (2017). "Xukurú". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. http://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/xuku1239.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Loukotka, Čestmír (1968). Classification of South American Indian languages. Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center. https://archive.org/details/classificationof0007louk.
- ↑ Xukuru Alain Fabre (2005). Diccionario etnolingüístico y guía bibliográfica de los pueblos indígenas sudamericanos.
Sources
- Moseley, C. (2008). Encyclopedia of the World's Endangered Languages. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 978-1-135-79640-2. https://books.google.com/books?id=p-7ON7Rvx_AC&pg=PT263. Retrieved 2025-02-09.
